Friday, June 26, 2009

Paying Children not to have children

A program called College Bound Sisters gives teenage girls a buck for every day they are not pregnant.

Organizers noticed that teenage girls with babies tend to have sisters with babies too.
The program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro tries to keep girls 12 to 18 in school and childless.
The money goes into a fund and when the girl enrolls in a college, she can get the money to pay for school.
As you can imagine, not everyone approves of this method.

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